Category: Ceramics
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Artist Restores Broken Vases Using Gold Thread
It’s the stuff of nightmares… accidentally knocking over your mum’s prized vase and watching it smash into a million pieces on the floor below. Well we’ve got a beautiful solution for you. Embroidery artist Charlotte Bailey will reconstruct your vase for you by sewing the fragmented porcelain back together, using patterned fabric and metallic thread. Her creations…
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Carved Surfaces on Ceramics by Sean Roberts Reveal Surprising Streaks of Colour
Multi-layered ceramics by Sean Forest Roberts reveal surprising streaks of color and pattern beneath their smooth monochrome surfaces. Roberts, who operates as Forest Ceramic Company, mixes and pours colored liquid clays to create the colorful patterns in his ceramics. He also uses carving tools to unearth layered colors in motifs based on patterns and structures found…
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These San Francisco Steps Glow At Night From The Moonlight
A spectacular community led project has just hit the streets (and stairs) of San Francisco. Titled “The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps Project“, friends and neighbors got together to cover the 163 steps at 16th and Moraga with a beautifully colorful tile mosaic. It may look beautiful during the day, but it is at night where…
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Amazing Hand-Blown Glass Creatures By Scott Bisson
Scott Bisson, a passionate glass blower living in Oregon, creates wonderful hand-crafted glass-blown creatures with beautiful and subtle colors. He often chooses to portray aquatic creatures or amphibians whose natural forms match well with the flowing qualities of the molten glass that he shapes. Bisson’s career as a glass blower began in high school when…
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Beautiful Hand-painted Ceramic Plate Installations by Molly Hatch
Massachusetts-based artist Molly Hatch creates immense installations of hand-built ceramic plates painted with a variety of patterns and scenes. Hatch frequently re-contextualizes historic images used centuries ago by old porcelain manufactures as well as paintings and textiles. Her largest artwork to date, Physic Garden, was installed last year at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, a monumental installation of…